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in a Sneak-Box " (Boston, Lee & Sliepard) is a 

 narrative of a voyage down the Mississippi in 

 a small boat. John Mortimer Murphy's "Sport- 

 ing Adventures in the Far West" (New York, 

 Harpers) contains the suggestions of an experi- 

 enced sportsman. A. Judd Northrap's " Camps 

 and Tramps, etc." (Syracuse), is an account of 

 hunting and fishing adventures in the Adiron- 

 dacks and Michigan. " Canoe and Camera " is 

 a description of a fishing excursion in the Maine 

 lakes, by Thomas Sedgwick Steele (New York, 

 Orange Judd & Co.). Marion Harland's [Mrs. 

 Terliune's] account of European travel, "Loiter- 

 ingsin Pleasant Paths " (New York, Scribners), 

 contains useful suggestions for invalid travelers. 

 Howard Payson Arnold has written an agreea- 

 ble narrative of travel in a seldom trodden 

 corner of Europe in "Gleanings from Petrosina 

 and the Upper Engadine" (Boston, Hoaghton). 

 Samuel S. Cox's "Search for Winter Sunbeams" 

 (New York, Appletons) is a second edition of 

 the entertaining and comical observations of 

 that witty author on the shores of the Mediter- 

 ranean. Frederick A. Ober's " Camps in the 

 Caribbees " (Boston, Lee & Shepard) is an 

 entertaining account of a naturalist's adven- 

 tures m the little known Lesser Antilles. " New 

 Colorado and the Santa Fe Trail " is a lively, 

 graphic account of scenes in the far West and 

 adventures of travel by A. A. Hayes (New York, 

 Harpers). " Brazil : the Amazons and the 

 Coast " (New York, Scribners) is an entertain- 

 ing narrative of travel in an interesting region, 

 by Herbert H. Smith. 



" The Russian Army and its Campaigns in 

 Turkey" is by Lieutenant F. V. Greene, military 

 attache to the United States Legation in St. 

 Petersburg. The new edition of Lippincott's 

 "Gazetteer" is the com pletest geographical 

 dictionary published. 



Biographical works and volumes of personal 

 reminiscences form an unusually large propor- 

 tion of the year's publications. In religious bi- 

 ography several notable works have appeared. 

 "Heroes of Christian History" (New York, 

 Armstrong) is a series of sketches of eminent 

 religious men by English and American au- 

 thors: lives of William Wilberforce, by John 

 Stoughton, D. D. ; Henry Martin, by Canon 

 Charles D. Bell; and Philip Doddridge, by 

 Charles Stanford, D. D., have been published. 

 A memoir of the Rev. Dr. Charles Hodge has 

 been written by the Rev. A. A. Hodge, D. D. 

 (New York, Scribners). The "Life and Work 

 of William Augustus Muhlenberg," by Anne 

 Ayres (New York, Harpers) is a biography of 

 one of the most eminent of American divines. 

 On the still more celebrated and influential Dr. 

 Channing the "Life " by his nephew has been 

 reissued on the occasion of the centennial of 

 his birth, and a volume of " Reminiscences," 

 by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and a memorial 

 essay by Charles T. Brooks (Boston, Roberts), 

 have been published. The life of another emi- 

 nent clerical thinker is recounted in the " Life 

 and Letters of Horace Bushnell " (New York, 



Harpers). " Memorials of Frances Ridley Hav- 

 ergal," author of tender religious poetry, have 

 been prepared by her sist<-r, M. V. G. H. (New 

 York, Randolph), and several volumes of her 

 writings have also been published during the 

 year. " Sister Augustine, an Old Catholic " 

 (New York, Holt), is a translation from the 

 German memoir of Amalie von Lassaulx, the 

 story of a remarkable life of devotion to re- 

 ligious convictions and to benevolent works. 

 " A Model Superintendent " is a sketch of the 

 life and labors of Henry P. Haven, by H. Clay 

 Trumbull (New York, Harpers). Professor 

 Henry Boynton Smith's memoir, edited by his 

 wife (New York, Armstrong), is an interesting 

 biography of an amiable and accomplished 

 scholar. 



An edition of Madame d'Arblay's memoirs 

 of English court life, revised and edited by Sa- 

 rah Chauncey Woolsey, is called " The Diary 

 and Letters of Frances Burney " (Boston, Rob- 

 erts). Henri de Lacretelle's " Lamartine and 

 his Friends," translated by Maria E. Odell (New 

 York, Putnams), gives the reader a familiar 

 acquaintance with the brilliant poet-statesman 

 and other great Frenchmen of the nineteenth 

 century. C. H. Jones has written sketches of 

 the lives of Macaulay and Gladstone (New 

 York, Appletons). ""Certain Men of Mark" 

 (Boston, Roberts) contains sketches of living 

 historical characters, by George Makepeace 

 Towle. The long-delayed publication of the 

 " Memoirs of Madame de R6musat," now com- 

 pleted (New York, Appleuons), has accom- 

 plished an important mission in substituting 

 the image of a real man, though in many re- 

 spects an ignoble one, for the floating vision 

 of ideal virtues and vices, and superhuman 

 powers, which political panegyrists and detrac- 

 tors have left of Napoleon. 



"Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of 

 Slavery in the United States" (New York, 

 Putnams) is a life of Lincoln, written by 

 Charles Godfrey Leland, with enthusiastic ad- 

 miration and intelligent appreciation for the 

 war President's true virtues and achievements. 

 " Anecdotes of Public Men " is a volume of in- 

 tensely interesting reminiscences by Colonel 

 John W. Forney (New York, Harpers). The 

 "Memoir of Governor Andrew " contains per- 

 sonal reminiscences of the late Governor of 

 Massachusetts, by Peleg W. Chandler (Boston, 

 Roberts). The "Memoir of Henry Annitt 

 Brown," edited by Professor J. M. Hoppin 

 (Philadelphia, Lippincott), preserves the mem- 

 ory of a gifted orator and high-minded poli- 

 tician whose early death was a national loss. 



Mrs. John T. Sargent's " Sketches and Rem- 

 iniscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut 

 Street, Boston," and Charles T. Congdon's 

 " Reminiscences of a Journalist " (Boston, Os- 

 good), present interesting pictures of literary 

 and intellectual society in America. " My 

 College Days," by Dr. Robert Tomes, is a frank 

 and garrulous narration of personal reminis- 

 cences of school and college life in New York, 



